lost decade
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.47 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A period of economic stagnation, originally referring to Japan in the 1990s (later extended to the 2000s and sometimes the 2010s).
noun
Alternative letter-case form of lost decade.
Example Sentences
- "Japan's stagnant “lost decades” of the 1990s and 2000s, while relatively comfortable for millions of Japanese and even enviable to other countries around the world, have left an indelibly negative mark."